THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 22, 2021 at 18:19 JST
People wait in line to receive COVID-19 vaccine shost at the metropolitan government’s building in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward on June 22. (Takashi Endo)
Tokyo reported five deaths from COVID-19 and 435 fresh cases of novel coronavirus infection on June 22, 98 more than a week ago.
The seven-day average of new cases of infection through June 22 came to 405.9, an increase of 8 percent from the figure for the preceding week, metropolitan government officials said.
Of the 435 new cases, patients in their 20s constituted the largest group at 130, followed by 83 in their 30s, 70 in their 40s and 54 in their 50s. Thirty-two patients were aged 65 or older.
Serious cases requiring ventilators or an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an ECMO lung bypass machine, stood at 45, down two from the day before.
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